* The first disadvantage was the weapon's weight, which impairs the soldier's mobility.

Even the 25 % of paratroops armed with submachine guns were at a distinct disadvantage, given the weapon's limited range.

The Thompson submachine guns had been in development at approximately the same time as the Bergman and Beretta, but development was put on hold in 1917, when the US and the weapon's designer ( Thompson ) entered the war.

The weapon's yield was reportedly greater than that of the smallest dial-a-yield nuclear weapons at their lowest settings.

The weapon's informal nickname was " The Gadget ".

The Union of Concerned Scientists advocacy group points out that, at the Nevada Test Site, the depth required to contain fallout from an average-yield nuclear test was over 100 meters, depending upon the weapon's yield.

One of the weapon's most notable features was its comparatively high rate of fire of about 1, 200 rounds per minute, twice the rate of the British Vickers machine gun and American Browning at 600 round / min.

Fritz-X was steered by the bombardier in the launching aircraft over a radio link between the aircraft's Kehl transmitter and the weapon's Straßburg receiver.

However, if the same weapon's barrel is " cut down " ( shortened ), as is common in cavalry and jungle-combat adapted versions, the bullet would often leave the barrel before the powder was completely consumed, resulting in a bright flash from the muzzle.

This problem was largely eliminated by the introduction of nipple partitions, evident on later percussion revolvers, which largely shielded the percussion caps on neighbouring chambers from the flash struck by the weapon's hammer during firing.

As a footnote in the weapon's long history, an M1934 was used in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on 30 January 1948.

Among the complaints during testing was that the battery life was too low for the weapon's powered sight system and some ergonomics issues.

Its official designation was the L / 12, i. e., the barrel was 12 calibre in length, 42-cm ( 16. 5 inch ) Type M-Gerät 14 ( M-Equipment 1914 ) Kurze Marine-Kanone (" short naval gun ", a name intended to camouflage the weapon's real purpose ).

This had the added advantage of minimising the stress on the weapon's mounting, so that deck reinforcement was not needed, and the weapon could easily be retrofitted to any convenient place on a ship.

The original design did not anticipate its being carried up jungle-covered mountains on men's backs, but such was the weapon's popularity that men were generally content to man-pack it to all manner of difficult locations.

When considering all of the gun's deficiencies, taken during combat when it was at its worst, the practical rate of fire of the Breda 30 could even have been comparable to a semi-automatic weapon's practical rate of fire, as the standard American rifle was ( the M1 Garand ).

Overflying the BATT House, Mirbat. Knowing that the SLRs would not be of full use until the Adoo were closer than the weapon's range of 800 metres, and lacking more heavy firepower, Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba made a run for the 25 Pounder Artillery Piece which was positioned next to a smaller fort which stationed nine Omani Army Special Forces soldiers, who had not played a part in the battle.

Aimo Lahti was displeased with this revision, believing that it decreased muzzle velocity and reduced the weapon's reliability, and even sought in vain to have the muzzle brake's designer court-martialed.

The cannon was destroyed by the Flash when he escaped and forced the energies of the weapon's power source into itself, causing it to explode and Barry to disintegrate.

Another implication of dropping the colourbomb is that it was done to hide the extent of the torque weapon's devastation of city of Suroch, which later revealed to be the unnamed opponent in the Pirate Wars.

When Price realized that Reeves had ordered that an actual blank charge was to be used so the weapon's puff of smoke would be visible, he immediately shouted, " What?

The LABS system was originally designed to facilitate a tactic called toss bombing, to allow the aircraft to remain out of range of a weapon's blast radius.

Most automatic weapons are classed as long guns ( as the ammunition used is of similar type as for rifles, and the recoil of the weapon's rapid fire is better controlled with two hands ), but handgun-sized automatic weapons also exist, generally in the " submachine gun " or " machine pistol " class.

They were often 4 m long or longer, and had special hand guards built into the lance, often tapering for a considerable portion of the weapon's length.

The fuse itself is a long probe affixed to the weapon's nose, which detonates the bomb if it touches the ground or any solid object.

" Military and government records of the time do not use this poetical name but refer to firelocks, flintlock, muskets or by the weapon's model designations.

The Puckle Gun drew few investors and never achieved mass production or sales to the British armed forces, mostly because British gunsmiths at the time could not easily make the weapon's many complicated components.

Only a limited number may be maintained at a time by a faction, reflecting the weapon's historical unpopularity.

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At the time the rifle still had developmental goals that were incomplete, primarily associated with the weapon's weight ; the battery life had been extended, and a more heat-resistant plastic hand-guard added.

The weapon's ' reaction time ' in the normal readiness condition after its arrival at the launch site would have been 20 to 30 minutes and the ' holding time ' at peak readiness ( with a time of two to ten minutes before the missile could be launched ) would be about a day.

However, the range of the GLCM gave it the ability to strike deep within then-Soviet territory, and the weapon's guidance, and low RCS would have made it far more difficult to intercept a GLCM even if the launch were detected in time.

The time of day affects a weapon's chances of hitting its target ; for example, accuracy is lowered during night time.

The Mateba Model 6 uses the recoil from firing to rotate the cylinder and cock the hammer, unlike conventional revolvers, which depend on the user physically pulling the trigger and / or cocking the hammer to actuate the weapon's mechanism of operation.

When designed to be suspension-mounted on a hardpoint on a typical post-WW II aircraft, gun pods are inherently less accurate than integral guns, or the type of " conformal " gun pods that are faired smoothly into or onto the nearby surfaces of an aircraft, because the " hardpoint " mounting is necessarily less rigid, so that the weapon's recoil produces more deflection.

Wrapping the weapon's fissile core in a neutron reflector ( which is standard on all nuclear explosives ) can dramatically reduce the critical mass.

The bolt moving rearward also compresses a strong recoil spring which subsequently returns the bolt forward, stripping a fresh round from the weapon's magazine and forcing it into the chamber in the process.

The vulnerability of infantry carrying backpack flamethrowers and the weapon's short range led to experiments with tank-mounted flamethrowers ( flame tanks ), which were used by many countries.

Bolt action is a type of firearm action in which the weapon's bolt is operated manually by the opening and closing of the breech ( barrel ) with a small handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the weapon ( for right-handed users ).

The original Paveway series, retroactively named Paveway I, gave way in the early 1970s to the improved Paveway II, which had a simplified, more reliable seeker and pop-out rear wings to improve the weapon's glide performance.

The reflected laser light from the target is then detected by the seeker head of the weapon, which sends signals to the weapon's control surfaces to guide it toward the designated point.

A semi-automatic, or self-loading firearm is a weapon which performs all steps necessary to prepare the weapon to fire again after firing — assuming cartridges remain in the weapon's feed device or magazine.

Two other key issues were reducing the weapon's weight and increasing the heat resistance of the hand guard, which would start to melt after firing too many rounds.

A selective fire firearm has at least one semi – automatic and one automatic mode, which is activated by means of a selector which varies depending on the weapon's design.

When a blank round is fired, the system sends out a laser beam, which score " kills " or " injuries " on any soldier or vehicle in what would be the path of the weapon's projectile.

The primary theoretical advantage of such a weapon is that antimatter and matter collisions, though significantly limited by neutrino losses, still convert a larger fraction of the weapon's mass into explosive energy than a fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb, which is on the order of only 0. 7 %.

Also of note is that the ' butt end ' of the staff, which did not contain the weapon's ' head ', bore a spike.

Dice, which were a rational way to represent chaos, were replaced by the Prussians by artillery range tables, and then by evaluation of each weapon's lethality, etc.

While troops praised its effectiveness, the M67 came in for heavy criticism due to the weapon's weight and length as well as its backblast, which often precluded its use in offensive operations.

On the top of the grenade was a plate, under which the user would insert a chemical igniter, which would act as the weapon's fuse.